Last June, India set a national record after it successfully launched a rocket carrying 20 satellites, including 13 from the US.

It sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars in 2013 at a cost of just $73 million, compared with NASA’s Maven Mars mission which had a $671 million price tag. ISRO is also mulling the idea of missions to Jupiter and Venus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often hailed India’s budget space technology, quipping in 2014 that a rocket that launched four foreign satellites into orbit had cost less to make than Hollywood film “Gravity”.

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Sorry. Pakistanis cannot blame India borrowed the technology this time. No country has ever done it! It was the same with Mars mission. They couldn’t even accuse India of getting the technology from Russia or the US as the satellite was sling shot towards Mars, which nobody has done!

This means the engineering and science base in increasing in India. Another pointer is the emergence of Indian CEOs for major tech giants like Google and Microsoft.

Unfortunately, Pakistan is more worried about getting its friend China to not block Masood Azhar’s sanction. They are working very hard to ensure Masood Azhar is not sanctioned.